+1 these are great recommendations. Pedros levers are the best, no other levers are chunky/solid like them. There's a reason they only come in pairs, where the cheapies come as triples. Depending on your tires, you might only ever need one.

And for patch kits, the keyword is 'vulcanizing'. They make glueless patch kits, they might get you home, but the patches are basically just stickers, compared to vulcanizing glue which initiates a chemical reaction that fuses the rubber of the tube with the patch (without sticking to the inside of the tire!).

The other big name in quality patches is Rema; if you find a Rema TipTop patch kit, it might be a little better than a park VP-1 kit, but probably not a whole lot.